Reply by EEngineer

Even with a sled, I find cross-cutting long pieces on the TS to be painful. I kept a GP blade on the TS because I didn’t want to be changing between a rip and crosscut blade all the time. I had a fixed 10” miter saw that I found to be more accurate with long pieces and at weird angles, but the width restriction was limiting. I finally broke down and bought a 12” sliding compound miter saw.

Rips happen on the table saw, cross-cutting up to 12” (hasn’t proven to be limiting yet) happens on the miter saw and the TS almost always has a rip blade on it. I’ll have to finish a couple of projects on it to be sure, but right now it seems more convenient.

I was real close to pulling the trigger on a RAS instead of the sliding miter saw but space limitations dictated the miter saw. In either case I would need longer wings to support long stock, but the RAS just intruded into shop floor space more.